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Medical Device Catalog

A medical device catalog is a reference document: reference numbers, descriptions, sizes, pack quantities, materials and the regulatory information your company publishes for each item. Flipbooks AI turns that approved PDF into a link a hospital or clinic buyer can open, search and read on a phone, with the edition number visible on every page. Flipbooks AI publishes the document. It does not write, review or verify what is in it. It is free, with no ads, no watermarks and no limit on the number of catalog editions you host.

Medical Device Catalog

How to Publish a Medical Supply Catalog

1

Upload the Approved PDF

Upload the catalog your team has already signed off. Flipbooks AI builds the interactive flipbook from that exact file, so nothing about your approval process changes and no wording is altered along the way.

2

Add Branding, Search and Links

Put your logo and colors on it, switch on search so reference numbers are findable, and add links out to your ordering portal, your documentation library or a contact form. Password protect a price list if you need to.

3

Publish and Share the Link

Publish in one click and send the link to procurement contacts, embed it on your product site, or print a QR code for a congress stand. When the range changes, republish and the same link shows the new edition.

How to Create a Medical Device Catalog Flipbook

How to Create a Medical Device Catalog Flipbook

Begin with the PDF your team has already approved. Upload it and Flipbooks AI builds an interactive preview immediately. Set the page turn, add your logo and colors, and switch on search so reference numbers are findable. Add the links that help: your ordering portal, your documentation library, a contact form for a quote. Decide whether the catalog is open or password protected, and whether downloading is allowed. Check it on a phone. Publish, then send the link. Nothing in your approval process changes, because the file you uploaded is the file people read.

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What Is a Medical Device Catalog?

A medical device catalog is the document a manufacturer or distributor gives the people who buy: procurement staff, materials managers, theatre and ward leads, dental and veterinary practices, laboratory buyers. Each entry usually carries a reference number, a plain description, sizes or configurations, the pack and case quantity, the material, the shelf life and whatever regulatory information your company states for that item. Flipbooks AI turns that approved PDF into an interactive flipbook with pages that turn, a search box and links that work. What the catalog says is entirely yours. The tool changes how it is delivered and read, not a word of what is in it.

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What Is a Medical Device Catalog?
What Is a Medical Device Catalog?
What Is a Medical Device Catalog?
What Is a Medical Device Catalog?

What a Product Entry Usually Carries

Entries vary by company, and most carry a similar set of facts: the reference or catalog number, a plain description, the size or configuration, the pack and case quantity, the unit of measure, the material, whether the item is supplied sterile or non sterile as your labelling states, single use or reusable, the shelf life and the barcode or GTIN. Photographs help buyers confirm they have the right item. Flipbooks AI does not generate or check any of this. It publishes what your documentation and marketing teams wrote, exactly as they wrote it.

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What a Product Entry Usually Carries

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Keep the Edition Number Visible

Keep the Edition Number Visible

The hardest thing about a reference document is knowing whether it is current. Put the edition and the revision date on every spread rather than only on the cover, because a page gets screenshotted and shared far more often than a whole catalog does. Add a short page near the front listing what changed since the last edition. With a hosted link, the current edition is whatever you last published, so a buyer who saved the link a year ago is reading today document rather than the one they downloaded.

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Why Publish the Catalog as a Flipbook
Why Publish the Catalog as a Flipbook
Why Publish the Catalog as a Flipbook
Why Publish the Catalog as a Flipbook

Why Publish the Catalog as a Flipbook

Device catalogs are long, and they are usually distributed as a file. The trouble with a file is that it detaches from the edition it belongs to. It gets saved to a shared drive, forwarded to a colleague, and read two years later with no way of knowing that a code changed or a size was withdrawn. A hosted flipbook fixes the delivery problem. There is one link, the edition number sits on the page, and when you publish a new revision the same link shows it. Buyers open it in a browser on a hospital desktop or a phone in a supply room, and they always land on the version you meant them to read.

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You Approve the Content, We Publish It

This is worth stating plainly, because it is the part that matters in a regulated industry. Flipbooks AI is a publishing tool. It takes the PDF you give it and presents it as a flipbook. It does not draft claims, does not check statements against any standard, does not review labelling and makes no assessment of any product in your catalog. Your own regulatory, quality and marketing people decide what the document says and when it changes. Everything on this page is about delivery: how the approved document reaches a reader and how easily they can use it.

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You Approve the Content, We Publish It

Medical Device Catalog Tool Alternatives

Issuu

Issuu

  • Free & Unlimited
  • No Watermarks
  • Searchable Codes
  • Long Catalogs
  • Own Branding
  • Mobile Ready
  • Password Protection
  • Read Analytics
  • Instant Sharing
  • Republish Editions
Flipbooks AI

Flipbooks AI

  • Free & Unlimited
  • No Watermarks
  • Searchable Codes
  • Long Catalogs
  • Own Branding
  • Mobile Ready
  • Password Protection
  • Read Analytics
  • Instant Sharing
  • Republish Editions
FlipHTML5

FlipHTML5

  • Free & Unlimited
  • No Watermarks
  • Searchable Codes
  • Long Catalogs
  • Own Branding
  • Mobile Ready
  • Password Protection
  • Read Analytics
  • Instant Sharing
  • Republish Editions
Canva

Canva

  • Free & Unlimited
  • No Watermarks
  • Searchable Codes
  • Long Catalogs
  • Own Branding
  • Mobile Ready
  • Password Protection
  • Read Analytics
  • Instant Sharing
  • Republish Editions
Reference Numbers People Can Search

Reference Numbers People Can Search

Most people open a device catalog with a number in their hand. Search turns that into one step instead of five minutes of scrolling. Make sure the text layer of your PDF is real text rather than flattened artwork, because that is what makes the codes findable. A clear contents page and a range index at the back help the readers who arrive knowing the product family but not the code. Small navigation decisions like these are the difference between a catalog people use and one they ask a rep to read to them.

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Features for a Catalog Full of Codes and Sizes

A reference document is used differently from a brochure. People arrive knowing a code and wanting the pack size, or knowing the pack size and wanting the code. Flipbooks AI gives the catalog a search box so a reference number gets you to the page in one step, a table of contents for jumping between ranges, and clickable links out to your own product pages, ordering portal or documentation library. Each page can carry a downloadable data sheet. You can put the edition and revision date on every spread, protect a price list with a password, and keep your own branding on the cover with no watermark anywhere.

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Features for a Catalog Full of Codes and Sizes
Features for a Catalog Full of Codes and Sizes
Features for a Catalog Full of Codes and Sizes
Features for a Catalog Full of Codes and Sizes

Pack Sizes, Units and Order Multiples

Ordering errors usually come from the same confusion: the buyer wanted ten of an item and ordered ten cases of fifty. Show the unit of measure, the pack quantity, the case quantity and the minimum order multiple in the same place, in the same order, on every page of the catalog. If an item is only supplied by the case, say it beside the code rather than in a footnote. A consistent table is dull to design and it is the single thing that saves your customer service team the most work.

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Pack Sizes, Units and Order Multiples
Country, Language and Tender Editions

Country, Language and Tender Editions

Suppliers rarely publish one catalog. A range available in one market may not be listed in another, a distributor wants the catalog in their own language, and a tender needs a subset with specific documentation. Publish each as its own flipbook with its own link, so nobody has to explain which pages to ignore. Because publishing is free and takes minutes, a bespoke edition for a large account is a reasonable thing to make rather than a project. Keep the master catalog separate and current.

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From One Product Line to a Full Range
From One Product Line to a Full Range
From One Product Line to a Full Range
From One Product Line to a Full Range

From One Product Line to a Full Range

The tool does not care whether the catalog is fourteen pages or four hundred. A single line brochure for one instrument family behaves the same as a complete supplies catalog covering wound care, single use instruments, procedure packs and consumables. Manufacturers, national distributors, dental and veterinary suppliers, laboratory and imaging suppliers all publish the same shape of document. Keep one master catalog and publish separate editions for a region, a language or a specific tender, each with its own link, so the version a buyer receives is the version written for them.

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Link Out to Ordering and Documentation

A catalog is more useful when the next step is one tap away. Link a range to the page on your own website where you host its documentation. Point a button at your ordering portal, your distributor locator or a contact form that reaches the right rep. If a customer needs to request a sample or a quote, let them do it from the page they are looking at. You control every destination, so the catalog stays a signpost to your own material rather than an isolated file.

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Link Out to Ordering and Documentation

Who Uses Medical Device Catalogs

2456+

Device Manufacturers

6

Medical Distributors

13

Sales Reps

24

Dental Suppliers

65

Lab Suppliers

9

Procurement Teams

Price Lists Behind a Password

Price Lists Behind a Password

Pricing in this industry is contract specific, and a general catalog is often deliberately silent about it. Flipbooks AI lets you publish the product catalog openly and keep the price list as a separate flipbook behind a password shared only with the accounts it applies to. Downloading can be switched off so a contract price does not travel into a spreadsheet that reaches the wrong desk. The two documents stay linked in your workflow while staying separate for the reader.

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Opens on a Phone in a Supply Room

Catalogs get consulted in places where nobody is going to install anything: standing at a store cupboard, at a nurses station, in a stockroom with a box in one hand. Flipbooks AI opens straight in the browser, resizes to the screen, and lets somebody pinch in on a table of sizes until it is readable. Search works on the phone the same way it works on a desktop. A rep in a car park can pull up the current edition and read a reference number aloud without hunting through their email for an attachment.

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Opens on a Phone in a Supply Room
Opens on a Phone in a Supply Room
Opens on a Phone in a Supply Room
Opens on a Phone in a Supply Room

One Link Instead of a Forwarded Attachment

Hospital purchasing runs on forwarded email. A catalog attachment gets sent to a colleague, saved locally, attached to a requisition and quoted from months later. Replacing the attachment with a link does not stop people sharing, and that is fine: what it changes is that everyone who follows the chain arrives at the edition you currently publish. If you have withdrawn a size or changed a code, the person reading a two year old email still sees the correction.

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One Link Instead of a Forwarded Attachment
Loads Quickly on a Hospital Network

Loads Quickly on a Hospital Network

Institutional networks are often slow, heavily filtered and running older browsers. Flipbooks AI compresses images so product photographs stay clear while pages load fast, and it shows the first spread while the rest downloads in the background. There is nothing to install, which matters on a locked down desktop where staff cannot install anything anyway. A catalog that opens in a couple of seconds gets read on the spot instead of being left for later and forgotten.

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A Free Catalog Tool With No Watermark
A Free Catalog Tool With No Watermark
A Free Catalog Tool With No Watermark
A Free Catalog Tool With No Watermark

A Free Catalog Tool With No Watermark

Flipbooks AI is completely free and does not hide the parts a supplier needs. No watermark appears on pages that carry your product photography and your codes, there is no page limit for a long catalog, and search, branding, password protection, embedding and read tracking are all included. Catalogs are republished whenever a range moves, and a tool that charges by the edition quietly discourages the one thing a reference document must do, which is stay current.

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Works With InDesign, Canva and Your Product Data

Your production process stays exactly as it is. Lay the catalog out in Adobe InDesign, build simpler documents in Canva, or generate the pages from a product information system and export a PDF. Upload that file. If your catalog is produced from a data export, republishing after a data refresh is a matter of uploading the new PDF. Embed the finished flipbook on your website beside your other resources. Flipbooks AI is a publishing step at the end, not a new system for your team to learn.

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Works With InDesign, Canva and Your Product Data

What Suppliers Say About the Device Catalog Tool

Our supplies catalog runs to three hundred and forty pages and used to go out as a file that everybody kept a copy of. When we withdrew two sizes last year we had no way of reaching the people still ordering from an old copy. One link solved that. We republish, and the same link shows the current edition to everyone who saved it.

Marketing team
Marketing team

Product catalogs

Search was the whole reason we moved. Materials managers arrive with a reference number and want the pack quantity, and now they get there in one step. Our customer service team says the calls that used to start with what is the code for have dropped noticeably.

Studio owner
Studio owner

Client lookbooks

I cover dental practices and I am in and out of the car all day. Having the current catalog as a link on my phone means I can read a code out at the counter without hunting through email for the right attachment. The practices ask for the link now rather than a printed copy.

School office
School office

Newsletters and programmes

We keep the general catalog open and the contract price list behind a password, which is exactly how our accounts wanted it. Setting it up took an afternoon, it cost nothing, and our regulatory colleagues were comfortable because the published document is the file they approved, unchanged.

Independent designer
Independent designer

Portfolio flipbooks

Keep Every Edition in One Place

Keep Every Edition in One Place

Old editions matter in this industry more than most. A customer may ask what a code referred to three years ago, or a colleague may need to check what was listed when a contract was signed. Keep each published edition as its own flipbook, clearly dated, so the history is a set of links rather than a folder of similar files. Discontinued lines can live in an archive edition that is still readable without cluttering the catalog you send to new customers.

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Send the Catalog to a Buyer in One Link

Distribution stops being a file transfer problem. Put the link in an email to a procurement contact, embed the catalog on your own product site so it sits beside your documentation, or print a QR code for a stand at a congress. Reps carry the same link on their phones. If a catalog or a price list is for one account or one tender only, protect it with a password and share that with the named contacts, and switch downloading off when the document is not meant to travel further.

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Send the Catalog to a Buyer in One Link
Send the Catalog to a Buyer in One Link
Send the Catalog to a Buyer in One Link
Send the Catalog to a Buyer in One Link

Readable for Everyone Who Needs It

Catalogs are read by a wide mix of people, some of them using assistive technology at work. Flipbooks AI supports screen readers, so a colleague using one still gets the descriptions and the tables. Keyboard navigation moves through the catalog without a mouse. Sensible contrast and type size keep long tables of codes legible on a laptop under bright ward lighting. None of this is difficult to set up, and it decides whether part of your audience can use the document at all.

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Readable for Everyone Who Needs It

Compare Medical Supply Catalog Tools

ApplicationRatingUnlimited CreditsUsage RatingDescription
10/10Yes1

Flipbooks AI publishes your approved device catalog as a searchable flipbook for free, with your branding, no watermark, no page limit, password protected price lists and read tracking. It presents the document your team wrote and makes no assessment of its content.

Issuu

5.2/10No2

Issuu is an established publishing platform with a large reader base and a dependable viewer. Its free tier adds Issuu branding and limits uploads, which suits a magazine better than a supplier catalog that has to look like it came from you.

FlipHTML5

7.1/10No3

FlipHTML5 converts PDFs into flipbooks and has a broad template library. The free plan marks your pages and holds back the reporting, so a manufacturer publishing a long catalog usually ends up on a subscription.

Publuu

8.3/10No4

Publuu produces tidy flipbooks quickly and its link tracking is genuinely handy for a sales team. Longer documents and the fuller analytics sit on paid plans, and the free version stays deliberately limited.

Adobe InDesign

6.4/10No5

InDesign is where most serious catalogs are laid out, and nothing beats it for controlling a page of dense tables. It is a design application rather than a way to publish, so the export still needs somewhere to live and something to make it readable on a phone.

Canva

7.8/10No6

Canva suits smaller documents and teams without a designer, and it is quick to work in. Its viewer has none of the search or tracking a reference catalog benefits from, and dense specification tables are awkward to build there.

Akeneo

6.9/10No7

Akeneo is a product information system, which is a different job: it keeps the master data behind your catalog accurate and consistent across channels. It manages the data, not the finished document a buyer reads.

Flipsnack

8.1/10No8

Flipsnack has a capable editor and useful catalog features for commercial ranges. Free accounts are restricted, and removing the branding or getting at the analytics moves you onto a paid tier.

Static PDF Download

6.5/10No9

A PDF on your website is simple and works everywhere. Once it is downloaded it stops being current, it opens badly on a phone, and you learn nothing about which ranges people looked at.

Printed Catalog

7.6/10No10

A printed catalog is still the most trusted object on a purchasing desk and nobody needs a password to read it. It is also fixed the day it leaves the printer, expensive to reissue when a code changes, and impossible to correct in the field.

Congress Handouts and Sales Editions

Congress Handouts and Sales Editions

Trade congresses and clinical exhibitions still run on paper that gets left behind on the stand. A short flipbook edition covering what you brought to the show, opened from a QR code on the counter, travels home in a pocket instead. Reps can carry a compact selection catalog for the accounts they visit, with the full range one link away. Each edition gets its own tracking, so you find out whether the congress version was read after the badge scanning stopped.

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See Which Sections Buyers Actually Open
See Which Sections Buyers Actually Open
See Which Sections Buyers Actually Open
See Which Sections Buyers Actually Open

See Which Sections Buyers Actually Open

A printed catalog tells you nothing once it leaves the building. Flipbooks AI shows how many people opened the link, which ranges they spent time on and where they stopped reading. That is useful in ordinary, practical ways: a range nobody reaches may be buried too deep in the contents, a page everybody lingers on probably needs a clearer table, and a spike in opens after a mailing tells you the mailing worked. It is information about the document, not about the reader, and it makes the next edition better.

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A Catalog That Keeps Working as the Range Changes

Product ranges change constantly: codes are added, sizes withdrawn, packs reconfigured. A hosted catalog absorbs that better than a printed run or a distributed file, because the correction reaches everyone who has the link. Flipbooks AI keeps up with browsers and devices on its own side, so the catalog you published two years ago still opens properly on a new phone. Your job stays what it always was, which is deciding what the document should say.

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A Catalog That Keeps Working as the Range Changes

Frequently Asked
Medical Device Catalog

What is a medical device catalog flipbook?

It is your approved catalog PDF published as an interactive booklet with real page turns and a search box. Flipbooks AI does it for free, so a buyer can look up a reference number, read the pack sizes and open the current edition in a browser with nothing to install.

Does Flipbooks AI check the content of my catalog?

No. Flipbooks AI is a publishing tool. It presents the PDF you upload and nothing else. It does not write, review, verify or assess any product information, labelling or regulatory statement. Those decisions stay entirely with your own regulatory, quality and marketing teams.

Is Flipbooks AI free for a long product catalog?

Yes. It is free with no watermark on your pages and no page limit, so a four hundred page supplies catalog costs the same as a fourteen page brochure. Search, branding, password protection, embedding and read tracking are all included.

Can buyers search for a reference number?

Yes, as long as the codes are real text in your PDF rather than flattened artwork. Readers type the number and land on the page. A contents page and a range index help the people who know the product family but not the code.

Can I keep a price list private?

Yes. Publish the product catalog openly and keep the price list as a separate flipbook behind a password, shared only with the accounts it applies to. Downloading can be switched off so the file does not travel any further.

How do buyers get the catalog?

You send a link. Put it in an email to procurement, embed the catalog on your website beside your documentation, or print a QR code for a congress stand. There is no attachment to be blocked by a hospital mail system.

Can I publish a separate edition for one country?

Yes. Publish as many editions as you need, each with its own link, for a market, a language or a specific tender. Keeping them separate means nobody has to be told which pages do not apply to them.

What happens when a code or a pack size changes?

Upload the revised PDF and republish. The link everyone already holds shows the new edition, so a buyer reading a two year old email still reaches the current document rather than a withdrawn page.

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